Hello,

I have not found much information about moving Resource mailboxes and Contacts to Exchange 2013 (from Exchange 2007 or 2010).

How this is done? There is nothing in EAC. Is that done by using EMS with New-MoveRequest?

Or do we have to create those from scratch?

-RJ

Hi,
Resource Mailboxes (Room, Shared, Equipment) is moved to Exchange 2013 in the exact same way as User Mailboxes. There is no difference. Its up to you if you create batches in EAC or use New-Moverequest.

MailContacts is Contact objects in Active Directory with exchange attributes, but no mailbox so there is nothing there to move.

Your answer is not useful at all. The move mailbox option is simply not available for resource mailboxes on the GUI. Can this only be done via powershell?

Your answer is not useful at all. The move mailbox option is simply not available for resource mailboxes on the GUI. Can this only be done via powershell?

Are you saying Narayn, that if you go to Recipients|Migration in EAC and choose "Move to a different database", that you can't see your Resource M

I'm also noticing the same behaviour. All of my mailboxes are moved but for whatever reason the Exchange 2010 resource/room mailboxes don't show up in the 2013 ECP. I've tried moving them from EMS, but that didn't seem to work either. 

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Unmark the "answer" fromMartina - it is useless.

Since there doesn't appear to be an option to do this in the gui, I used the shell as such:

get-mailbox -recipienttypedetails roommailbox -database SOURCEDBNAME | new-moverequest -targetdatabase TARGETDBNAME

you can repeat using "equipmentmailbox" instead of "roommailbox" to get the rest...

I have a lot of mbx moves going right now since we are mid-migration - these are sitting at 10% "creating folder hierarchy" - guess we'll see if they succeed soon enough...

• Edited by pesospesos Thursday, November 28, 2013 11:36 PM
• Proposed as answer by pesospesos Thursday, November 28, 2013 11:50 PM

The first few of these completed successfully just now - so looks like the above command should do the trick.

Martina's answer is correct. You start a new migration and you can add resources from there. You cant go to resources and add from there like you are saying so go to migration and add from there.

• Edited by Ryan N. Hatch Monday, March 17, 2014 3:20 PM

answer is correct. When you try moving from recipients window you don't see resource mailboxes, but if you start new migration from migration window resource mailboxes are there

I have another issue but on the same subject.  We migrated our resource mailboxes thru the move mailboxes in 2013 EAC but now we're at the point of decommissioning our 2007 servers.  Before the actual decommission we stopped all 2007 services and dismounted all 2007 databases.  Once we did this the resources would no longer work - errors pertaining to cannot directly book the resource. 

I had to bring up the public folder database for the moved resources to work again.  We do not use public folders any longer so we did not do any type of public folder migration.  Do I need to do this for the resources to work?

Thank you Martina for your solution.

Just a heads up that the solution marked as an "answer"is only suitable for organizations with less than 500 mailboxes - that is the max the migration wizard in the GUI will show. The shell method I provided will work for unlimited mailboxes.